The whole mountain is my hunting ground

When Zhao Jun returned to the house, the food was already on the table, but Wang Meilan was washing the pots in the outer room.

This pot has just been smoked, and the millet has dried on the bottom of the pot. It's easy to brush it now while it's hot, but it will be difficult to do it after it cools down.

"Son, come in quickly and eat."

"Yes." Zhao Jun responded, and when he entered the east room, he saw that Zhao Youcai, Zhao Hong, and Zhao Na were already eating around the table.

Seeing Zhao Jun come in, Zhao Youcai whispered to him: "Go, bring me the wine."

Zhao Jun smiled, then went to the cabinet against the wall of the outer room, took out the wine barrel, and then took a wine glass.

When Wang Meilan saw this, she was speechless.

Zhao Jun returned to the house, placed the wine glass in front of Zhao Youcai, then unscrewed the lid of the wine barrel and poured wine into the glass for Zhao Youcai.

When people here drink at home, they don’t fill the glass too full. They always fill the glass about a third of the way and then pour it back when they’re finished.

Originally, Zhao Youcai was very proud of his son's pouring of wine. But as Zhao Jun poured more and more wine into the cup, and it was already more than two-thirds full, Zhao Youcai hurriedly said: "Okay, that's enough, drink it before pouring it again."

But the more he talked, the more Zhao Jun poured. Zhao Jun didn't stop until he poured a full glass of wine.

When Zhao Jun finished pouring the wine, he happened to catch up with Zhao Hong picking out vermicelli for the little girl. Because the vermicelli was long, the little girl knelt down and sat up to pick it up. When she stood up, she held the chopsticks in her right hand and awkwardly wrapped the vermicelli around the head of the chopsticks. She used her left hand casually. She pressed the kang table without exerting much force, and the kang table did not shake.

But the glass was too full, so Zhao Hong pressed it lightly, and the wine began to shake, as if it was about to overflow.

"Oops!" Zhao Youcai quickly lowered his head, put his lips close to the rim of the cup, and sucked the wine into his mouth.

After taking a sip, the level of the wine dropped a little and it stopped spilling out.

Zhao Youcai raised his head, glared at Zhao Jun, and said angrily: "The more I don't let you fall, the more you fall. It's so easy."

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "I heard them say: 'Tea is enough to bully others, wine is too much to respect others.' You are my father, shouldn't I respect you?"

"Go away." Zhao Youcai said, "I need your respect."

While speaking, Zhao Youcai stretched out his hands, holding a smoked rabbit with his left hand, and pulled off one of its hind legs with his right hand, and gave it to Zhao Hong. Then, he pulled off another one and gave it to Zhao Na this time.

He himself pulled one of his front legs, stuffed it into his mouth, and bit the meat on the leg.

At this time, Wang Meilan walked in with a rice bowl. She glared at Zhao Youcai, then put the bowl on the table and said, "My son brought this rabbit back. You don't need to respect him, so don't eat it."

When Zhao Youcai heard the words, he seemed not to hear him. He just lowered his head slightly, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

Wang Meilan sat next to Zhao Jun, took a steamed bun and picked up a chopstick of vegetables.

Zhao Jun was on the side, tearing off a piece of meat from the smoked rabbit's breast and putting it in Wang Meilan's bowl.

Wang Meilan took a bite and suddenly asked Zhao Jun: "Son, if you don't stay at home tomorrow night, do you need mom to bring you some food?"

"What?" Before Zhao Jun could answer, Zhao Youcai took over the conversation, looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "If you don't come back, what are you going to do?"

Zhao Jun gnawed on the smoked rabbit rib fan and replied: "Old Xu Pao came to me and asked me to go hunting with him."

"Hunting? What are you hunting for?"

Zhao Jun threw a rabbit rib next to the bowl and replied: "Kill Heixiazicang, go far, and live in the mountains."

"Black blind man, that's okay." Hearing that Zhao Jun said he was going to fight the black blind man, Zhao Youcai felt relieved. After he picked up a chopstick of vermicelli, he asked Zhao Jun: "Then where will you stay tomorrow?"

Wang Meilan was on the sidelines and was very angry when she heard this. She thought to herself, how could there be such a father? First, he asked his son what he was fighting for, and then where he lived.

Thinking of this, Wang Meilan said angrily: "My son, I live in a worker's shack, unlike some people who go into the mountains and freeze overnight in a jar of heavy snow."

"I..." Zhao Youcai was choked by Wang Meilan's words, but he had no choice but to pick up the wine glass, raise his neck and take a big sip.

This sip of wine was a bit boring. Zhao Youcai covered his head with his left hand, took the glass in his right hand and threw it down on the table casually.

"clang!"

There was a crisp sound.

"Who are you beating?" Wang Meilan rolled her eyes and said angrily: "It's just a day of fighting. What kind of pig god did you want to beat last time? It took several days and made us and you scared. Today we are going to hunt tigers. The kid is so good, his pants are already in the crotch area."

"Whose pants are open?" Zhao Youcai couldn't bear to say anything else, but he couldn't deny it even to death.

Zhao Youcai said loudly: "Didn't I scratch my trouser legs?"

"Are those your trouser legs?" Wang Meilan asked, "Aren't they butt legs?"

"What a butt?" Zhao Youcai retorted again, "Isn't that a thigh?"

The two little girls couldn't help but be confused when they saw their parents suddenly quarreling. But Zhao Jun couldn't hold back his joy when he heard it. If his thighs were a little higher, wouldn't they be his butt?

"Mom, Mom, let's eat quickly." Zhao Jun quickly persuaded Wang Meilan and gave her a piece of wild boar meat from the vegetable basin.

Wang Meilan picked up the wild boar meat and put it into her mouth while glaring at Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai quickly picked up the bowl and shoveled the vermicelli in the bowl into his mouth.

At this time, Zhao Jun remembered what Xu Changlin said during the day and asked Zhao Youcai: "Dad, you didn't shoot today?"

Zhao Youcai shook his head and said, "We followed him up and jumped into the stone pond, but we didn't even look at him."

"Could it be that my brother Dalong shot it yesterday and scared it away?"

"Eighty percent..." Zhao Youcai held the wine glass, his eyes straight, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing Zhao Youcai's expression, Wang Meilan asked him, "Are you going tomorrow?"

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai put down the wine glass, picked up the rabbit leg and took a bite, then said: "Kill it down tomorrow."

…

The next day, Zhao Youcai got up first and made breakfast for the whole family.

By the time Zhao Jun got up from the kang, Zhao Youcai had been gone for more than an hour. Zhao Jun finished eating, packed up, greeted Wang Meilan, and then came out of the house with Hua Xiao'er.

Hua Xiao'er has been hiding in the house for several days, but this time it is indeed a tough battle, and I'm afraid it won't work without it.

When Zhao Jun was tying ropes to Da Qing and Bai Long in the yard, Li Baoyu came out of his house and put the rope around Da Huang's neck.

Dahuang, who had originally pounced on Li Baoyu, suddenly calmed down when he saw Li Baoyu approaching him with a rope, and raised his head proactively.

On the other side of the yard, Xiaohua shouted at Li Baoyu. This puppy is very smart. It knows that its owner wants to go up the mountain, and it also wants to go.

"Brother, can you take Xiaohua with you?" Li Baoyu asked Zhao Jun across the wall.

"Don't take it with you." Zhao Jun said, "We are going to surround the tiger cub this time. It would be too dangerous to take it with us."

Li Baoyu thought about it. This little flower had only gone up the mountain once, and that time it was to catch a badger. He had never experienced a big battle. If he let it go against the lynx rashly, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to come back.

At this time, the door of Li's house suddenly opened, and Li Dayong came out of the house holding a dog-skin hat in his hand.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun greeted Li Dayong and said, "Are you still on the court today?"

Li Dayong did not answer Zhao Jun's question, but asked: "What did you two want to fight just now?"

"Heixiazi!" Li Baoyu turned around and said to Li Dayong: "We and old Xu Pao will go to kill Heixiazi in the warehouse."

Li Dayong frowned and asked again: "Then why should I hear you two saying that you want to surround the tiger cub?"

"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed and said to Li Dayong: "Uncle, we and Lao Xu Pao have agreed on eight o'clock. We have to leave quickly." After saying that, Zhao Jun took the dog and ran out.

"Ah, Dad, I'm leaving too." Li Baoyu grabbed Dahuang, said nothing, and hurried out.

Looking at his son's leaving figure, Li Dayong smiled, looked up at the mountains in the distance, and murmured to himself: "Brother, your son is so kind."